Alta Vista - One of my
favorites. It's extremely powerful, fast, and
detailed. One of its best features is the fact that it searches an entire Web site (and
Usenet newsgroups) looking for what you want to find; many other search engines cannot do
that, concentrating only on Web site titles. It offers simple and advanced searches, and
allows the use of wildcards and Boolean searches. Simply put, Alta Vista is robust!

Infoseek - Infoseek is a search engine with a lot to offer. Unlike many competing engines, you can
do more than search the Web with Infoseek; you can search Usenet newsgroups, look up email
addresses, browse through a company directory, search Web FAQs (Frequently Asked
Questions), and more.

Lycos - probably the oldest major search engine and has long been viewed as fast and
reliable. It offers keyword and subject searching, is customizable in its searching
options, and actually offers a rating system (called "Point") for Web sites.

NBCi - collection of briefly annotated
and recommended sites, with fairly good coverage of academic subject areas;
search engine results area also returned [NOTE: NBC has announced it will shut
down this site]

Netcenter - Netscape's portal site
concentrating on the business community, with a directory, search service and
(free) members-only services including discussion groups, instant messenger, a
member directory and free e-mail

Starting Point - designed to make your daily Web experience more productive. Starting
Point helps you manage Web resources by combining a powerful, centralized Web searching
tool with quality, subject-oriented Web resources you need every day -- all combined in an
easy-to-use, comprehensive, and well organized starting point.

WebBrain - Java-based visual search
engine of the Open Directory Project index;
interface allows users to click through an animated display of categories to
locate Web sites. Currently in beta, and requires a fast Internet connection.

Yahoo! - is a topical directory, technically not a search engine. This means that, rather
than arbitrarily searching the Web for sites, they list sites which have been submitted to
them for approval from netizens. Thus, you'll typically find the referencing system
reliable for finding high quality sites. As Yahoo takes the form of a hierarchical index,
you'll find it fun and easy to "surf" the Net with Yahoo!
Nice portal with one of the
largest directories on the Internet but lacks reliable site evaluation, so
deficient content is mixed in with the good; not an appropriate site for
academic research; offers news, stock quotes, maps, free e-mail and many other
services

AOL Search - engine that defaults to
AND logic and offers an Options template for easy search construction; has an
option to view results by popularity; offers a directory based on the
Open Directory

Ask Jeeves - submit questions in
plain English and view suggested relevant sites; also offers the
Open Directory ranked in order of popularity

Atomica - engine that retrieves
results from Web search engines and related information from such deep Web
sources as general and specialty dictionaries, encyclopedias, financial
databases, news, user links, and more

Google - ranks pages by the number of
links from pages ranked high by the service, including results from the
Open Directory Project. See also:

HotBot - the Web's ultimate search
engine. It is the biggest -- indexing more than 54 million documents. It is
the smartest -- offering a range of easy-to-use filter tools that enable you
to get the most relevant results. Offers easy form-based
Boolean, field, and media search options; includes its channel content with
the results for searches on broad or popular terms; clusters results by
presenting one hit per site

iLOR - presents results from other
search services and offers options to view and manipulate results in various
ways. NOTE: options are available when you hover your mouse over each results
title

MSN Search - derives results from a
variety of sources, including the
LookSmart directory, Ask Jeeves and
others; applies concept matching to search statements; and offers an advanced
search option with form-based field searching similar to HotBot

Oingo - "meaning-based" engine that
constructs meanings and relationships from your search terms to return
results, from which you can choose your desired concept to refine your search;
derives results from the Open Directory

Teoma - returns results in three
sections: popularity-ranked Web pages based on the number of same-subject
pages that reference them; suggested terms to refine a search; and link
collections created by topic experts

WISEnut - offers a large database
and a companion directory of topics related to a search

Fossick Meta Search - searches
a dynamically changing group of engines based on speed of availability, and
ranks results based on search terms, popularity and other measures; offers the
option to search sites from individual countries. Offers page translation
using Babelfish, the AltaVista
translation service.

GenieKnows - searches 25+ engines
and directories and ranks results based on the number of sources listing a
page; chooses sources to search based on consumer input; also offers searches
of multimedia types

Ixquick - search engines, directories,
news and MP3 files; ranks results based on top ten rankings from the source
sites; allows any type of search syntax and will translate and direct your
search accordingly

Kartoo - categorizes content into
relevant concepts and sites and displays results on a graphical map; requires
Flash or offers an HTML version

Mamma - retrieve results in
relevancy ranked order; power search offers a user-friendly template for
building a query

MetaCrawler - retrieve results
in relevancy ranked order; useful power search available with a template of
search options

METAEUREKA - barebones interface
for an engine that sorts results by relevancy and offers a "Site info" link
that returns information on the server, date last modified, size, and
descriptive information if available

MetaMission - searches several
search services on the Web, and also offers specialty searches of auctions,
books, electronics, hardware and software, jobs, multimedia, and Usenet News

Metor - searches multiple engines,
directories and databases; offers the option to see the size, date and
availability of the document, to extract the context of your search terms
within the document, and to navigate user-selected results within a frame

Pandia Search Central - searches
multiple engines and directories and also offers searches of news, books,
music, videos and other specialty databases; includes a searchable version of
the Open Directory

ProFusion - meta engine that
allows results to be sorted by relevance, title, URL and source; offers a
customizable
Advanced
Search form for choosing the search services to search; also offers
topical searches on the deep Web

Query Server - offers queries of
the general Web, or health, money or government sites and organizes results by
concept, by site, or by both

SearchTurtle.com - offers
navigation of the retrieved Web sites from within the search results window;
also offers searches for news and multimedia

SurfWax - offers options to see a
quick view of sites in the search results list to determine relevancy and
choose alternative search terms for a subsequent search from a thesaurus;
offers personalization options

Verio Metasearch - retrieves the
top ten hits from each source engine and directory in combined ranked order

qbSearch - retrieve results from
engines you choose; offers the option to activate a QuickLinks feature that
allows you to select links from your results to display the first page of all
of them on a single page

BigBook - a San Francisco-based company offering free access to the 16 million U.S.
businesses indexed in their database. Among the really unique features BigBook offers is a
personalized address book, detailed maps which allow for zooming capabilities, and -- this
is very cool -- 3-D representations of major cities, allowing visitors to explore specific
city sections, search individual buildings, generate business listings for specific
streets, and even "enjoy" advertisements on circulating blimps.

Download.com
- offers quick and easy access to the top free-to-download software titles
available over the Internet. Visit DOWNLOAD.COM to download today's most popular titles --
including must-have utilities, the hottest games, and the latest browsers. The site also
features highlights and product descriptions to help you make the right decision about
what software to download.

Specialty Search Engines

CompletePlanet - offers
searchable access to thousands of databases on the "deep Web" for results that
include summaries from the retrieved site

Direct Search - large compilation of links to the search interfaces of a wide variety of
research resources on the Web

The InvisibleWeb - directory of
over 10,000 databases, offering the option to search for the database you
need, from IntelliSeek

Invisible-web.net - searchable
directory of quality databases on the Web compiled by Chris Sherman and Gary
Price as a companion to their book The Invisible Web: Uncovering
Information Sources Search Engines Can't See

Checkdomain.com - search for the
availability of a domain name in nearly every country of the world

Clickey - search for words contained
in a domain name, or keywords contained in a brief record, with options to
limit searches to a country, state and city

Namedroppers.com - allows
searches for domain names with multiple keywords and the ability to limit to
.com, .net, .org and .edu domains; results link to the domain's Web site when
available and to the InterNIC Whois record

Network Solutions -
search the database of registered domain names on the site of Network
Solutions, the company that registers many domain names

Registry Whois Search -
search the database of registered domain names on the site of Network
Solutions, the company that registers many domain names

SpeechBot -
experimental search engine of popular U.S. radio shows, offering the option to
listen to an audio clip containing your search terms

TimePix - commercial
site offering free access to more than 22 million photos, prints and
illustrations taken from popular Time-Life magazines and the historical
Mansell photograph collection; registration required